Cape Town
-
Open Streets Cape Town launches toolkit
Open Streets Cape Town (OSCT), a non-profit organisation working to create shared spaces that help bridge spatial and social divides in the city, launches an Open Streets toolkit. OSCT is based on the successful Ciclovía movement from Bogotá, which transforms streets into car-free public spaces every Sunday. This movement has spread to more than 400 cities … Continued
-
Seminar — Spatial transformation: what Cape Town can learn from Medellin
Upcoming seminar highlights lessons from Medellin’s Social Urbanism programme for Cape Town.
-
The Harare Academy of Inspiration: a new category of public space
A month-long open “university” in a Cape Town township offers alternative ways of learning, challenging the city’s geographical strictures.
-
Going car-free on Bree
Open Streets returns to Cape Town this coming weekend. On January 17 the public are invited to use the entire stretch of Bree Street to walk, play, exercise and express themselves freely.
-
An exhibition on cities through the lens of Cape Town
The African Centre for Cities, a UCT research unit, is mounting a wide-ranging exhibition investigating the challenges and possibilities facing Cape Town. Entitled City Desired, the exhibition opens at 18h00 on 30 October in City Hall and runs until 10 December 2014. City Desired emerges against the backdrop of the World Design Capital (WDC) programme, … Continued
-
Weekly news roundup: August 29, 2014
Kickoff for Nairobi‘s e-pay parking. The pilot project for the cashless payment of parking fees in Nairobi was launched on Haile Selassie Avenue on Monday. Jambopay Chief Executive Officer, Danson Muchemi says the five-day exercise will see motorists pay for their parking using their mobile phones or through agents located strategically on the street. – CAPITAL … Continued
-
Cape Town community desperate as homes are demolished
(Republished from GroundUp.org.za) Hundreds of people were left homeless at Nomzamo settlement in Strand on Tuesday. Shacks were smashed down while their owners watched. Sonwabile Sango came home from work on Monday to find his shack demolished and his possessions gone. “I came from work late yesterday afternoon and I just saw police and people … Continued
-
Weekly urban news roundup: May 9, 2014
World Economic Forum lands in Abuja No fewer than 13 heads of state and about 1,000 delegates participate in the World Economic Forum, WEF, on Africa in Abuja. Ms Elsie Kanza, Director, Head of Africa, said that Nigeria as the largest economy in Africa has a great role to play in the region to ensure positive economic … Continued
-
Weekly urban news round up: April 11, 2014
Kigali National Genocide Memorial filled with grief Screams and wails punctured the crowd at Rwanda’s Amahoro stadium in Kigali on Monday, as people were overcome with grief while listening to a survivor of the 1994 genocide tell his story. – RFI. More than 2,000 Somalis arrested in Nairobi Kenyan police have been carrying out raids in Nairobi’s … Continued
-
Views of District Six
James Clacherty shares contrasting views of District Six in Cape Town that highlight this urban wound at the heart of the city.
-
Gone but not forgotten: Cape Town’s thomassons
An exploration of the useless elements in Cape Town’s built environment and what they can tell us about our relationship with our cities.
-
Re-thinking the homeless narrative in Cape Town
The reality of homelessness in Cape Town is more complicated than the deficiency narrative reproduced so often by wealthy city residents and city officials, writes James Clacherty.
-
Cape Town eco-estates protect rich from reality of townships
A stone’s throw from the working-class township of Masiphumelele, the Noordhoek mountains are being transformed into exclusive “eco-estates” which preserve apartheid geography just as the Group Areas Act did, write Bruce Baigrie and Henrik Ernstson.
-
Narrative and value articulation of contested green spaces in Cape Town, New York and London
Researchers look at how values of contested urban green spaces are articulated across cultural contexts in Cape Town, New York and London.
-
GxaGxa: where people know you and mosquitoes bite your children
What it’s like to live in GxaGxa settlement in Cape Town.
-
The barricaded shops of Delft South
Shop-keepers in Delft South, an area with one of the highest crime rates in South Africa, are fortifying their stores with cages to protect themselves from criminals.
-
Video: building upward with Empower Shack
How a two-story housing prototype aims to transform housing in Cape Town’s Khayelitsha.
-
Media as empowerment for youth in Mitchells Plain
Media programme give young people tools to share their stories and experiences of violence in the Cape Flats.
-
African Centre For Cities Peak Urban Postdoctoral Research Fellowship: Infrastructure/Human Settlements
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS The African Centre for Cities invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship to support research associated with the PEAK Urban project. The successful candidate will become part of a new global cohort of urban researchers as part of the PEAK Urban project. The ideal candidate will have expertise in urban studies debates, a firm … Continued
-
African Centre For Cities Peak Urban Postdoctoral Research Fellowship: Urban Governance
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS The ACC invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship to support research associated with the PEAK Urban project and complementary work on urban sustainability and governance. The successful candidate will become part of a new global cohort of urban researchers as part of the PEAK Urban project. The ideal candidate will have expertise … Continued
-
Call for Abstracts: Safety and Violence Initiative
The Safety and Violence Initiative (SaVI) at the University of Cape Town is inviting abstracts for papers to be presented at a conference entitled Preventing Violence and Promoting Safety in Fragile and Insecure Environments. The conference takes place from 27 to 28 November 2017 at the River Club in Observatory, Cape Town. The multidisciplinary conference … Continued
-
Fellowship: Urban Studies Postdoctoral Research
SCOPE The postdoctoral fellowship is focussed on Urban Studies-Southern Urbanism. The candidate will have expertise in qualitative social research, with a firm grounding in social theory and interest in the Global South. Familiarity with (social) design, literature and pedagogy would have to be achieved during the course of the fellowship. The specific tasks of the … Continued
-
Job: Deputy Director, African Climate and Development Initiative (University of Cape Town)
The African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI) wishes to appoint a deputy director.
-
Community Organisation Resource Centre: Technical Coordinator
Employment opportunity for a technical coordinator to manage projects at community organisation resource centre.
-
ACDI Student Research Fund: Call for Proposals
Funding opportunity for post-grad research costs for students engaged in a climate change and development related projects.
-
Annual ACC seminar & PhD course on democratic practices
Call to save the date and apply for the annual ACC seminar & PhD course focusing on political and unequal geographies in the Global South.
-
LSE-UCT July School: Urban development in Africa
Opportunity for students to register for a course which explores African urban development, engaging intensively with sites in Cape Town.
-
Job opportunity: Research Assistant within the ACDI
The African Climate and Development Initiative is looking for a research assistant to work on the project: ‘El Nino Ready Nations’.
-
Unequal citizenship in unequal cities: participatory urban governance in contemporary South Africa
Article demonstrates how the spatial and temporal landscape of the city is not a neutral technical backdrop for participatory processes.
-
Informality in the SDGs
Authors look at how informality is addressed in the SDGs, especially with regards to how it is measured.
-
Collective (in) efficacy, substance abuse and violence in ‘‘Freedom Park,’’ Cape Town
Using collective efficacy as a lens, the paper tries to understand high levels of violence and crime within a recently upgraded urban settlement in Cape Town.
-
The Poolitical City: “Seeing Sanitation” and Making the Urban Political in Cape Town
Article charts Cape Town’s contemporary sanitation syndrome, its condition of crisis, and the remarkable politicization of toilets and human waste in the city’s townships and informal settlements.
-
Everyday African Urbanism: Food Lab
How people living in households that generally earn a monthly income of R4,000 or less manage their food requirements.
-
Developing an appropriate land use methodology to promote spatially just, formal retail areas in developing countries: The case of the City of Cape Town, South Africa
This paper initiates a long overdue conversation regarding the relationship between land use management and social justice within a developing world context, and in formal retail areas, and aims to set out ways in which land use management can be made more relevant.
-
The geography of supermarkets in Cape Town: Supermarket expansion and food access
Focusing on food security and the nutrition transition, this paper presents a mapping of the location of supermarkets in Cape Town.
-
Ecological outcomes of civic and expert-led urban greening projects using indigenous plant species in Cape Town, South Africa
This paper explores the ecological outcomes of a series of indigenous plant greening interventions in Cape Town.
-
Reconstructing masculinity? A qualitative evaluation of the Stepping Stones and Creating Futures interventions in urban informal settlements in South Africa
This article is a study on interventions that target male masculinity in urban informal settlements in South Africa, and how these have improved livelihoods and encouraged positive social change.
-
Efficient informal trade: Theory and experimental evidence from the Cape Town taxi market
This article examines informal trade in regulated markets by using a randomized field experiment in the Cape Town taxi industry.